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Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco · 1517

mind impelled
Which surpass the grasp of the human mind, He drove
hearts appeased mercy struck
The sweet wound of love into the calmed heart.
fallen back first womb
Falling first into the womb of the most high virgin,
virgin divine from breath saw her own
Who soon conceived offspring from no seed,
brings forth boy at
And conquered, gave birth in the ninth month at the manger.
boy circumcision
Now the infant had scarcely seen the eighth light,
body first parts confessed
Now he had scarcely touched the first swaddling clothes of the assumed flesh,
ornaments shaved bloody
When the cut skin felt the bloody, cult-like sensation,
insensate to die
And fled the hostile anger of the prince
aspiration Joseph to the Virgin
Herod, to protect the mother and child in the heights,
instinct Egyptian roofs homes
Ordered by inspiration, Joseph went to the Nilotic roofs,
journey his approach to return
And proceeded, warned again to return to Judea.
dead borders
With Herod extinguished, he stood by the Galilean fields.
parent performed
Meanwhile, subject, he performs the commands of his parents,
docility excels wisdom had come
And the boy excels the elders, and the Solomonic temples
Jerusalem teachers shows secrets
Having entered, he warned, and revealed the hidden things of the law,
afterwards Jerusalem life
Soon he taught the Solymites Inhabitants of Jerusalem the duties of a glorious life.
John's precursor under small to put
Under the thunder of the herald, who persuaded to submerge the limbs in the river,
John thong
And he calls himself unworthy to loosen the thongs of Christ,
preceding shining poor
And to loosen the sandals of the shining foot.
deserts
Hence Christ proceeded to the hiding places of the vast desert,
about to tolerate bold devil's astuteness
About to suffer many of the violent demon's tricks.
forty days revolving rot: moon conquering night
For the dewy moon had already revolved four times ten,
had filled same number days great Sun's course
And the golden Sun had driven the great orb as many days,
wandered around fasting
And wandered around the earth, nor had Christ yet broken his fasting,
had broken insidious Satan
Hungering, when the tempter...